America, Korea, Spain, Italy, Turkey. Irish golf will be here there and everywhere this week as the DP World Tour and HotelPlanner Tours touch down in Europe for the summer while Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry get in the PGA Championship groove at the latest PGA Tour Signature Event.
PGA Tour
The 2025 Truist Championship, usually staged at Quail Hollow will have a new home this week as the TOUR’s best head to The Philadelphia Cricket Club’s Wissahickon Course.
This week also marks the return of Rory McIlroy, who is set to play his first individual event since his Masters triumph – he and Shane Lowry finished T12 at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.
McIlroy returns as the defending champion after he demolished Xander Schauffele at Quail Hollow last year, but this is a new course and a new test so will McIlroy enjoy the same dominance he has had in this tournament as he hunts a fifth title?
Lowry tees it up still searching for his first individual win since the 2022 BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth on the DP World Tour.
Seamus Power plays in the secondary event at the OneFlight Myrtle Beach Classic.
LPGA Tour
Leona Maguire kept up her form of making the cut in each of her appearances so far this term at the Chevron Championship but she will be looking to notch at least a second top-10 this week at the Mizuho Americas Open at Jersey City.
Nelly Korda returns to New Jersey seeking to defend her title and also earn her first win of the 2025 season.
Ladies European Tour
Lauren Walsh, Anna Foster and Annabel Wilson tee it up in the $2m Aramco Korea Championship in New Korea Country Club.
Walsh feels she is on the cusp of a maiden LET victory while Foster and Wilson are looking to round off encouraging starts to their rookie campaigns before the tour heads back to Europe for the summer.
Walsh recently finished fourth at the Joburg Ladies Open and she will keep knocking on the door of that first victory.
“I think it’s close, it’s just about getting everything together at the right time. It will happen so just allowing it to happen and if I get into the right mindset and play the golf I know I am capable of, I’ve been close a couple of times so I know it is there,” said Walsh.
“It’s just about timing and it all coming together so I am excited for plenty more opportunities this year.”
DP World Tour
Conor Purcell is back in Europe as the DP World Tour returns to a former favourite with the Turkish Airlines Open coming back to the schedule for the first time in six years.
The Portmarnock man enjoyed an encouraging spell in China as a return to the country of his second HotelPlanner Tour win last year brought finishes of 20th and 15th as he gained some confidence heading into a busy schedule.
HotelPlanner Tour
Jack Madden makes his HotelPlanner Tour debut at the Challenge de Espana at Fontanals Golf Club.
Madden joins promotion hopefuls Liam Nolan, Max Kennedy and Mark Power in the field while there are also starts for Alex Maguire, Dermot McElroy and Jonathan Caldwell.
Alps Tour
Ronan Mullarney, John Murphy, Robert Moran, Hugh Foley and Michael Young are in Italy for the Memorial Giorgio Bordoni presented by AON.
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